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Tech companies like Google, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook have revolutionized our lives, connecting us in ways that were once unimaginable — to each other, to information, and to entertainment. Conventional wisdom leads us to believe that the technologies unleashed by these corporations have empowered us as individuals. But is that really the case?

±õ²ÔÌý,Ìýa powerful critique of the role these companies play in our economy and in our lives,ÌýFranklin FoerÌý²¹°ù²µ³Ü±ð²õÌýthat the success of these tech juggernauts, with their gate-keeping control over our access to the world’s information, has created a new form of dangerous monopoly in America life.ÌýDoes our infatuation with the technological wonders these companies offer distract us from the price we pay as a society in terms of surrendered privacy, intellectual property rights, and diversity of worldview?ÌýIs our sense of individual empowerment merely an algorithm-fed illusion?Ìý

´³´Ç¾±²ÔÌýFuture TenseÌýfor a conversation withÌýFranklin FoerÌý²¹²Ô»åÌý³§±ô²¹³Ù±ðÌý³¦³ó²¹¾±°ù³¾²¹²ÔÌýJacob WeisbergÌýto discussÌýWorld Without MindÌýand the role of these new technologies in our lives.

PARTICIPANTS

Franklin FoerÌý
Correspondent,ÌýThe Atlantic
2016 ¹ú²úÊÓƵ Fellow

Author,ÌýHow Soccer Explains the WorldÌý²¹²Ô»åÌýWorld Without Mind

Jacob WeisbergÌý
Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, Slate Group

Copies of Franklin Foer’sÌýÌýwill be available for purchase.Ìý

Ìýis a partnership of ¹ú²úÊÓƵ, Arizona State University, andÌýSlateÌýmagazine.

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